[systemjim]

"This furlough does not impact essential workers or our ability to deliver core services to the residents of Dallas."

If 500 employees are "non-essential", please tell me why the taxpayers of Dallas are required to keep paying for them?

[hal ogen]

More and more people are noticing the truth that many government “workers” mainly collect a check and spend their time at work hassling taxpaying citizens one way or another (that is when they aren’t playing games or watching porn on the internet at “work”).